Ten Years of Outreachy
Explore Outreachy's decade-long journey in promoting diversity in free software through paid remote internships, its evolution, impact, and lessons learned.
Open ISAs - RISC-V, OpenPOWER, etc
Explore the growth and potential of open CPU architectures like RISC-V and OpenPOWER, discussing recent developments, available hardware, and their importance for the future of open source computing.
The Privacy Tax - How Tracking and Hacking Affect Disabled People, and What We Can Do About It
Explores surveillance's impact on disabled individuals, discussing privacy challenges, data security risks, and open-source solutions to reduce tracking and hacking vulnerabilities for people with disabilities.
UI Text - Simplicity is Difficult
Discover the power of microcopy in web design. Learn how concise UI text can enhance user experience, save time, and boost application sales. Gain insights on creating effective, user-friendly interfaces.
Power Management in the Home
Explore smart energy management for solar PV systems, covering data acquisition, logging, battery control, load switching, and surplus energy diversion to maximize efficiency and minimize costs.
What's Next for Bluetooth in PulseAudio
Explore the future of Bluetooth audio in PulseAudio, including codec support, community efforts, and integration with GStreamer for enhanced flexibility in Linux distributions.
Large Virtual Address Support - 52-bit - in ARM64 Kernel
Explores ARM64 kernel's 52-bit virtual address support, explaining memory layout changes, impact on debugging tools, and how applications can utilize expanded address space.
Let's Use an Automated Theorem Prover to Verify Video Games - I Swear This Is More Fun Than It Sounds
Explore using Z3 theorem prover to detect and fix bugs in video game systems. Learn to apply formal logic for diagnosing problems and discovering impossibilities in complex game mechanics.
A Journey to Performance - Using Rust in Mercurial
Explore Rust's impact on Mercurial's performance, focusing on 'hg status' optimization. Learn about interoperability, data structures, and version control internals for significant speed improvements.
Conference Close - LCA 2021 Online
Closing ceremony of linux.conf.au 2021, featuring award presentations, acknowledgments, and gratitude to volunteers and organizers who made the online event possible.
Radio Astronomy for Programmers
Explore radio astronomy from a programmer's perspective, covering key concepts, data formats, and practical applications in space observation and satellite tracking.
The Early Days of Unix at Bell Labs
Explore Unix's 50-year journey from a small experiment to a global industry. Discover its enduring ideas, lost concepts, and future prospects with insights from an early participant.
Citation Network Analysis from Scratch
Learn to perform Citation Network Analysis using Python, exploring methodologies, metrics, and tools to examine research field structures and connections between papers and authors.
The Conflict and Burnout Survival Guide - Handling When Things Go Wrong
Practical framework for detecting, engaging, and resolving community conflicts. Covers crisis management, conflict causes, facilitation, and burnout stages. Offers tools for handling challenging situations in community leadership.
How We Opened Up Our Private Museum Collection API
Explore ACMI's public API for museum collections, covering architecture, security, performance, and content licensing, with insights on potential future applications.
MicroROS, Combining Advanced Robotics and Low-Cost Embedded Systems
Explore MicroROS capabilities for integrating advanced robotics with affordable microcontrollers, bridging the gap between high-end software and low-cost hardware in open-source robotics.
When Things Go Wrong and How We Fix Them
Live hardware hacking session demonstrating problem-solving techniques for project setbacks, offering insights into troubleshooting and fixing issues in real-time.
The Rockling FPGA Audio Processor and Theremin SAO and Party Button SAO
Explore two innovative SAOs: the Rockling FPGA Audio processor and Theremin, and the Party Button. Learn about their functionality and applications in this engaging presentation.
So You Want to Torture RCU?
Explore RCU testing with rcutorture: overview, tricks for efficient testing, and insights into uncovering kernel bugs through synchronization primitive stress-testing.
Bringing WebM Alpha Support to GStreamer
Explore WebM Alpha support in GStreamer, including retro alpha specification, software and hardware-accelerated decoders, and implementation architecture for transparent video transitions.
Kernel Hardening for 32-bit Arm Processors
Explore kernel hardening techniques for 32-bit ARM processors, focusing on preventing security vulnerabilities and implementing critical mitigations to enhance Linux system protection.